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Another linguistic innovation[0] -- the idea that things that have been around for a long time are more likely to persist for another long time. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

I'm not familiar with turbos, but to me it sounds like a CFD? How does a short position on a turbo prevent you from losing more than what you "put in"[0]? If you're shorting underl…

> And if you are buying an instrument where you can lose more than you invested, the approach maybe wrong? :-) This is precisely why shorting can lose more than you "invest", becau…

An interesting look at America's building history. Of course, today's housing issues are not technological in nature, but political. It's an almost entirely self-imposed constraint…

I think the GP's point was that the college is also bound, privately by accreditation bodies and publicly by a duty to society not to devalue the meaning of a degree, to not grant …

> The immigrants they are specifically looking to remove are middle eastern and african. they certainly dont have canadians in mind Well, of course. Canadians generally don't cause…

Cheaper energy unlocks all of those things. All human problems are energy problems, in the end.

Only theoretically. PG&E's dividend yield is worse than savings accounts currently, and its stock price hasn't gone anywhere in 40 years. In fact, if you invested before the 2017 f…

> But governments are basically the only party that can act in the best interest of citizens rather than shareholders The best interest of shareholders can at least be defined, bec…

> We valued privacy and freedom over surveillance and “results.” The relative value of one over the other depends on the absolute value of either. In a Mad Max scenario, very few w…

These day's it's a common problem in all of the Anglosphere, but it does seem especially bad in the UK; they appear to have just given up the ability to build literally anything.

Quebec's geography is so favorable for hydropower that they don't need nuclear, or any other source of electricity.

> You’re missing the point which is to create jobs I sure hope that the ultimate point of a government push to build nuclear powerplants is in fact getting nuclear powerplants on t…

Pre-Fukushima, the Koreans were able to pop out a gigawatt every 5 years or so. Things dramatically slowed down afterwards, so even they are not immune to whatever it is that makes…

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Cutting Starlink and stripping drives from a NAS? This seems like a pretty sophisticated operation, much more so than the usual copper thieves and the like. Do you have reason to b…

> Your point is totally and completely wrong. Germany has public benefits that actually matter. Objectively wrong, because Germany does better in the things that subjectively matte…

> Why is the median considered "poor" Because most big-city coastal Americans think of the median Mississippian as that way. > If you neglect everything it takes to live a good lif…

There are, of course, many ways to measure this, some of which are slightly higher for Germany and some for Mississippi. Many are in the same ballpark, which is pretty crazy to thi…

Yes! Almost every human problem boils down to an energy problem. I welcome the future in which we have so much nuclear power (and other power sources) that electricity is too cheap…

"The rest" is still quite wealthy, even by today's developed economy standards. Median household disposable income is higher in Mississippi, a state widely panned for its poverty, …

More people will suffer and die over the next 50-100 years from efforts to counteract climate change than from climate change itself.

> Alarming doesn’t begin to describe it. This is an existential crises for our industry. In my (admittedly vibes-based) opinion, this is just a result of there being a huge supply …

> the Supreme Court case where they found standing > nobody had actually asked for one and the person didn't even make wedding web sites > There was no actual case 303 Creative v. …

> conservatives eat up the dehumanization of it all One could argue that's really dehumanizing is the callous disregard the system displays for the victims of such repeat violent o…